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Bristol Fighter T; All new Mini Cooper

JUST ANNOUNCEDBRISTOL FIGHTER TDate of release September 2007 Price £351,000 Performance 0-60mph: 3.5sec / Top speed: 225mph (electronically limited) What's different? Bristol's latest idea is to add two turbochargers to the already hardly slow 8 litre V10 Fighter coupé. They had to go to America to find a dynamometer capable of measuring the engine's power, which at 1012bhp will convincingly trump the 987bhp Bugatti Veyron to take the title of "most powerful production road car" - assuming it ever makes it into production. The premium over the standard Fighter is a cool £115,000 Why should I care? Bristol can make only 20 Fighters a year so even they are all made in "T" specification they will still be scarcer than a Veyron. The car's top speed will be capped, but Bristol says that left to its own devices it would keep accelerating until it was on the far side of 270mph